MANSION HOUSE WALK LONDON's - CITY OF LONDON WALK Mansion House, the official residence of The Mayor of the City of London. Mansion House features a portico with six Corinthian, classic Palladian architecture. Entrance to Mansion House and meeting place for the weekly tours. VISITOR INFORMATION Opening Hours: Weekly 1 hour tour 2:00pm, on most Tuesdays. Tours are first come/first served and limited to 40 per group Cost: Adults £6.00, Concessions £4.00 (Over 16 students and 60+) Facilities: Toilets Further Information: Mansion House MANSION HOUSE Mansion House is a town Palace and has been the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London since 1752. Built during the reign of George II, its grandeur was designed to reflect the City of London’s position as one of the world’s leading financial and trading centres. The grand entrance to Mansion House features a portico with six Corinthian columns with flights of steps each side.

Designed in the architectural style of Venetian Andrea Palladio, the classical features of Greek and Roman temples were popular in the 17th and 18th centuries. Many other examples of Palladian architecture can be seen in Europe and America. Mansion House, along with Guildhall, are used for official functions providing a high profile venue for Government, charitable and business events in the City of London. Entertainment space includes the grand Egyptian Hall, so named because the arrangement of its columns, and a ballroom. Functions held here include banquets for visiting Heads of Government and the annual Chancellor of the Exchequer’s ‘Mansion House Speech’, a keynote speech on the state of the economy. Further rooms are used for the Mayor’s private apartments and offices. Mansion House is home to one of the finest collections of seventeenth century Dutch and Flemish paintings in Britain. These can be viewed by the general public along with a collection of sculptures themed from the works of English poets and one of the largest and finest gold and silver plate collections in the world.

LORD MAYOR OF LONDON A new Lord Mayor, now known as The Lord Mayor of the City of London, is elected every year by ‘Liverymen’, people who belong to the old medieval trading companies of the City. These Livery Companies were originally developed as Guilds, associations responsible for the regulation of their trades by controlling wages, labour conditions and aspect of law. This continues today, with the Lord Mayor being responsible for the City's governmental, civic and, as the chief magistrate of the City, judicial functions with its own court of law. Although not used anymore for prisoners, the palace had holding cells including one for women, nicknamed ‘the birdcage’, where suffragette women's rights campaigner Emmeline Pankhurst was once kept.

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import() should not be called statically in /home/inlondon/public_html/libraries/loader.php on line 186 Strict Standards: Non-static method JLoader::import() should not be called statically in /home/inlondon/public_html/libraries/loader.php on line 186 Strict Standards: Non-static method JLoader::import() should not be called statically in /home/inlondon/public_html/libraries/loader.php on line 186 The Mansion House in the City of London is the official residence of the 'Lord Mayor of the City of London' - not to be confused with the elected 'London Mayor' Mansion House - Sightseeing - visitlondon.com Mansion House Platinum Partner About The official residence of the Lord Mayor of London, built in the 18thC in Palladian style.

Superb reception rooms and banqueting hall. Large gold and silver vaults. 'In-house' guides only permitted to conduct tours around the house. Only groups admitted, no individuals. This content has been supplied by Mansion House Opening Times Opening Times: Open by appointment only for visits by organised groups (minimum 15 people, maximum 40). Applications should be made in writing to the Principal Assistant, Mansion House, London EC4N 8BH. Images and Videos Mansion House, London, England Mansion House, London, England history Mansion House, London, England Mansion House is the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London. It is used for some of the City of London's official functions, including an annual dinner, hosted by the Lord Mayor, at which the Chancellor of the Exchequer customarily gives a speech – his "Mansion House Speech" – about the state of the British economy. The Guildhall is another venue used for important City functions. It is a Grade I Listed Building.[1] History Mansion House was built between 1739 and 1752, in the then fashionable Palladian style by the City of London surveyor and architect George Dance the Elder.

The site, at the east end of Poultry, had previously been occupied by the "Stocks Market", which by the time of its closure was mostly used for the sale of herbs.[2] The construction was prompted by a wish to put an end to the inconvenient practice of lodging the Lord Mayor in one of the City Halls. Dance won a design competition over solicited designs from James Gibbs and Giacomo Leoni, and uninvited submissions by Batty Langley and Isaac Ware.[3] Construction was slowed by the discovery of springs on the site, which meant piles had to be sunk to form the foundations.[2] The original building had two clerestory roof extensions, nicknamed the "Mayor's Nest" and "Noah's Ark". In 1795 George Dance the Younger re-roofed the central courtyard, and had the "Noah's Ark" demolished. In the same year, the original Grand Staircase was removed to make way for a further two rooms. In 1835 the entrance steps were reduced to one flight; and in 1842 the "Mayor's Nest" was demolished after the Ball Room was reconstructed.

The Lord Mayor's private entrance in Walbrook was created in 1845; and in 1849 the former Swordbearer's Room was converted into the Justice Room, effectively the Magistrates Court of the City until 1999 when the court removed to a building on the opposite side of Walbrook.[4] Architecture Mansion House has three main storeys over a rusticated basement. The entrance facade has a portico with six Corinthian columns, supporting a pediment with a tympanum sculpture by Sir Robert Taylor, in the centre of which is a symbolic figure of the City of London trampling on her enemies.[5] The building originally had two prominent and unusual attic structures at either end,[2] which were removed in 1794 and 1843. The building is on a confined site.

Sir John Summerson wrote that "it leaves an impression of uneasily constricted bulk", adding that "on the whole, the building is a striking reminder that good taste was not a universal attribute in the eighteenth century".[3] The main reception room, the columned "Egyptian Hall", was so named because Dance used an arrangement of columns deemed to be "Egyptian" by Vitruvius. No Egyptian motifs were employed.[3] It has twenty niches for sculpture.[5] There was originally an open courtyard, later occupied by a saloon.[5] The residence used to have its own court of law, since the Lord Mayor is the chief magistrate of the City while in office. There were eleven holding cells (ten for men and one, nicknamed "the birdcage", for women). A famous prisoner here was the early 20th century suffragette women's rights campaigner Emmeline Pankhurst. Art collection Mansion House is home to The Harold Samuel Collection of Dutch and Flemish Seventeenth Century Paintings, described as "the finest collection of such works to be formed in Britain this century" (Sutton 1992).

It consists of 84 paintings and includes some outstanding works by artists including Hendrick Avercamp, Gerard Ter Borch, Pieter Claesz, Aelbert Cuyp, Frans Hals, Pieter de Hooch, Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan Steen, David Teniers the Younger and Willem van de Velde. Public access Mansion House is not generally open to the public. However, tours can be arranged through the diary office, and there are public tours most Tuesdays. Literature In A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain recounted a story about the construction of the building: It reminded me of something I had read in my youth about the ingenious way in which the aldermen of London raised the money that built the Mansion House. A person who had not taken the Sacrament according to the Anglican rite could not stand as a candidate for sheriff of London. Thus Dissenters were ineligible; they could not run if asked, they could not serve if elected.

The aldermen, who without any question were Yankees in disguise, hit upon this neat device: they passed a by-law imposing a fine of £400 upon any one who should refuse to be a candidate for sheriff, and a fine of £600 upon any person who, after being elected sheriff, refused to serve. Then they went to work and elected a lot of Dissenters, one after another, and kept it up until they had collected £15,000 in fines; and there stands the stately Mansion House to this day, to keep the blushing citizen in mind of a long past and lamented day when a band of Yankees slipped into London and played games of the sort that has given their race a unique and shady reputation among all truly good and holy peoples that be in the earth. (See Harrison v. Evans (1767), 3 Bro. Parl. Cas. 465.) Notes Jump up ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1064604)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 September 2015. ^ Jump up to: a b c Britton, John; Pugin, A.

(1828). "An Account of the Mansion House". Illustrations of the Public Buildings of London: With Historical and Descriptive Accounts of each Edifice 2. London. pp. 120–6. ^ Jump up to: a b c Summerson, John (1962). Georgian London. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 61–2. Jump up ^ Weinreb, Christopher, and Hibbert, Ben, eds. (1992). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan. p. 509. ^ Jump up to: a b c Timbs, John (1867) [First edition published 1855]. Curiosities of London (New ed.). London: J.S. Virtue. pp. 540–1. References Sutton, P. Dutch and Flemish Seventeenth Century Paintings: The Harold Samuel Collection, 1992, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-41795-3 and ISBN 978-0-521-42840-8.

External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mansion House, London. Official Mansion House pages on the City of London website Mansion House tours Dateline: The Mansion House, official residence of the Lord Mayor of London – October 2015 | Mobilium Global Latest News Dateline: The Mansion House, official residence of the Lord Mayor of London – October 2015 Dateline: The Mansion House, official residence of the Lord Mayor of London – October 2015 The Rt. Hon. The Lord Mayor, Alderman Alan Yarrow flanked by (left) leading tech innovators Gerard Grech, CEO of Tech City & (right) Mobilium Global CEO, Ralph Simon. The Mayor introduced “A Technology Agenda for the Commonwealth”:, an exciting initiative from the UK government to substantially widen the digital reach between the UK and the 2.2bn Commonwealth citizens in 53 countries worldwide – the vast majority of whom love being ‘connected’. online and onmobile. Follow Us The Mansion House | Dublin City Council The Mansion House Residence of the Lord Mayor of Dublin The Mansion House is the official residence of Dublin’s first citizen, the Lord Mayor, and one of our cities finest and most loved buildings.

The Mansion House has been at the heart of city government since 1715. Construction started in 1705 and it was intended as a townhouse for Joshua Dawson, the developer of Dawson Street and Nassau Street. Joshua Dawson seldom lived in the house. Ten years later and still partly unfinished, it was sold to Dublin Corporation for £3,500 (€4,444), in addition to an annual rent of 40 shillings and an agreement to provide a loaf of double refined sugar, weighing six pounds at Christmas. The Mansion House is remarkable for many reasons: It is the only mayoral residence in Ireland which is still used for its original purpose It is the oldest Mayoral residence in Ireland and in Britain (Dublin preceded London by 15 years in providing an official house for its mayor) It is the oldest free-standing house in Dublin The Round Room hosted the inaugural meeting of Dáil Eireann on 21st January 1919

Question: What is the name of the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London?
Answer: MANSION HOUSE